It's on this PC rather than on a server, but apt-get has become
incredibly slow recently. Reading the package lists is taking many
minutes - using time to see how long 'sudo apt-get update' takes reckons
it's
Fetched 115 kB in 6s (17.7 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
real 28m27.642s
user 0m19.944s
sys 0m7.828s
The root partition with /var/lib/dpkg is on an SSD drive, which has
80+GiB free space and is regularly 'trimmed'. There's nothing using an
enormous amount of CPU or disk access. Even large applications are quick
to start.
Any ideas as to why this is happening?
Ian
